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Cellulitis

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Since suffering a ruptured brain aneurysm in December of 2000 that left me residual Right sided deficit, swimming has been something that I had not done a lot of. So when going to the Rokewood (a small town near Ballarat) pool / Dam with some friends I thought I may have  found a place a could go back to. How wrong I was, During the time I spent in the water it turns out a microscopic bug found its way into my right leg. Apparently via some edema that I had around my ankle (minor heart failure).

The photo was taken on day 1 of a 2 week Hospital stay, currently the leg looks worse than the photo after a week at home on a couple of different oral antibiotics.

Cellulitis is a diffuse infection of connective tissue with severe inflammation of dermal and subcutaneous layers of the skin. Cellulitis can be caused by normal skin flora or by exogenous bacteria, and often occurs where the skin has previously been broken: cracks in the skin, cuts, blisters, burns, insect bites, surgical wounds, or sites of intravenous catheter insertion. Skin on the face or lower legs is most commonly affected by this infection, though cellulitis can occur on any part of the body. The mainstay of therapy remains treatment with appropriate antibiotics.

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